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escrow holder / stakeholder

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Definitions from Case Law

From 229 U.S. 212 - Citizens National Bank of Roswell New Mexico v. George a Davisson · 1913Most cited · 62 citing opinions

the effect of the deposit of the contract and check with the bank was to constitute it a custodian or stakeholder for the benefit of both parties, holding the money without right or interest in it, bound above all things not to take sides between the parties, and answerable ultimately to the one or the other, according to their respective rights as between themselves.

How often courts cite the case defining “escrow holder / stakeholder”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “escrow holder / stakeholder” — 62 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.